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J. A. HURLEY.

CORK FULLER.

No. 348,911. Patented Sept. 7, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO JOHN A. I-IURLEY, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR TO THE F. F. ADAMS COMPANY, OF SAME PLAGE.

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ESFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,911, datedSeptember 7, 1886.

Application filed April 10, 1886. Serial No. 198,471. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. HURLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cork-Pullers; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, sncli as will enable otliei's skilled in the art towhich it appertaiiis to make and use the sanic.

This invention relates to eork-pullers; and it consists in certainimprovements in the construction thereof, as will be hereinafter fullydescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

The invention is illustrated in the aecompanying drawings. as follows:4

Figure l is a side elevation view of the dcvice. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection on the line x x in Fig. 1.

The construction is as follows:

A A is the supportiiig-frame, ol" which A is a bracket or arm, which maybe attached to a table, shelf, or other fixture, and A is a verticalguide-post with a central bore throughout its length. A corkscrew,consisting of the crank B, shaft or stem B', and worm B2, is journalcdin the central boreofthe guide-post A, and is free to move verticallytherein.

Gis a sleeve which surrounds the lower end of the guide-post A', andmoves vertically thereon. It has a flaring lower end or mouth to receivethe nose of a bottle, and it is provided with an arm, c, at one side.

D is an elbow-lever pivoted at its bow to the bracket A at a, andprovided with a slot, d, at the end of its-short arm, which engages withthe arm c of the sleeve C. This lever thus con strncted will move thesleeve C up or down on the guide-post.

In the sleeve O there are screws c, which pass through it and protrudeon the inside, where they are flat-pointed, with the points setvertically, the Unthreaded part of the screw indicating the 'liat point.

The operation is as follows: The bottle-nose is put in the positionshown in Fig. 1. (See E.) YVhen this is done, the corkscrew will bepushed n p. By tnriiing the crank B the worm will be screwed into thecork, which being done the lever D will be depressed, and this willcause the sleeve O to push the bottle down away from the cork, which isheld by the corkscrew, and as this occurs the cork of course issurrounded by the sleeve, and the points of the screws c are embedded inthe cork. By then iinscrewing the corkscrew from the cork, and thenlifting the lever D up, so as to slide the sleeve back up on thegnide-post,'the cork will becxpelled from the sleeve.

rIhe object el' the screw-points c is to hold the cork from revolvingwhen the screw is be-y ing turned to unserew it from the cork.

I do not claim in this application the combination of asupporting-frame, one part having a flaring mouth, in wardly-1 n oj eeting pins, and a slot, a hollow plunger within the barrel,

a lever for moving said plunger, a longitudinally-nioving crank-shaftjournaled in said plunger, and a corkscrew, as sncli a construetioii asthat forms the subject-matter of a separate application, No. 179,014,filed October 5, 1885.

XV hat I claim as new is- In a cork-puller, the combination,substantially as herein set forth, ofthe bracket A, vertical hollowguide-post A', supported by said bracket, the cork-puller B B Bi,`journaled in said guide-post and vertically movable therein, the sleeveC, with mouth C on its lower end, guided ou said post A', and the leverD, for moving said sleeve vertically on the said guide-post. y

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. HURLEY.

Witnesses:

Roer. H. PORTER, J. K. HALLooK.

